“Security forces employ a disproportionate amount of force along the coast and in parts of northern Kenya, the two regions with the largest concentration of Muslims in Kenya,” writes Abdullahi Halakhe [AFP]

The Kenyan police raid of Masjid Musa in February and the April 1 assassination of Islamic preacher Abubakar Shariff in the coastal city of Mombasa reveals the pernicious cost of the aggressive counter-terrorism campaign led by an unreformed Kenyan police.